July 9, 2014
Post-Camino
Monteriggioni
The unusual brick dome inspired the name Beehive Church. On the walls are the exquisite under drawings which have been removed from beneath their fresco paintings and now hang along side their corresponding fresco.
July 9, 2014
Post-Camino
Monteriggioni
The donkeys are the last to be fed after the cats, chickens, and pigeons.
July 9, 2014
Post-Camino
Monteriggioni
13th-Century Romanesque Cloister and Church which will be the stage for opera this summer. A fire removed the roof but left the walls standing.
The Church of Monte Sirpi of San Galgano (Beehive Church)
The Costercian Abby of San Galgano
July 8, 2014
Post-Camino
Monteriggioni
San Gimignano and vicinity after the rain followed by lunch at home.
July 7, 2014
Post-Camino
Monteriggioni
Why leave?
July 6, 2014
Post-Camino
Monteriggioni
After two years of planning, I join Vieri at his wonderful Tuscan home. The home we are staying out was formerly a barn he and his wife converted. Here we eat well, enjoy the mountain view, and are entertained by the cats.
